Also, and because this is how my brain works, I’m relieved that no matter what else happens, review-wise, we have quote for the cover for the paperback release. One neurotic worry down! Many, many more to go.

Anyway, this is my good news for the day. Hope you’re having a good day, too.

At first I thought that tiny fighter plane on the cover was a fly on my screen. It didn’t fly when I went to shoo it off. Fortunately once I realized what it was I stopped seeing it that way. A hazard of looking at images at less-than-full-size.

FWIW, I hate quotes from anyone and anything on book covers and I’m talking power-of-a-thousand-suns level. I will give a grudging pass to an unobstrusive one-liner on the front cover but anything hovering near the synopsis on the back cover starts the volcano boiling and anything that omits a synopsis entirely in favour of quotes results in me trying to resist the urge to fling the book across the room and going “but what is it about dammit!?!?”

I generally don’t give a rats about someone else’s opinion on a book as, in my experience, other people’s opinions are usually a poor indicator of whether I’ll enjoy it. So unless I’m on close enough terms to someone that I am familiar with the fine nuances of their taste, the whole thing is meaningless at best and counterproductive when it results in a lack of information about the actual stories.

/end rant

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